Car Gift Guide

The Best Gifts To Get For The Car Fanatic In Your Life

Wilderness Collective AdventureThis is where men who don’t have time to organize their own trips come to adventure. Wilderness Collective curates bare-knuckle escapades like sailing and surfing around the Channel islands, dirt-biking through old-growth redwood forests from Sequoia to Yosemite, snowmobiling 350 miles through the frozen heart of Alaska — all while camping overnight and sharing stories and bottles of bourbon over a campfire. Trips vary 3-4 nights, from $2,250 to $4,500.

Shoei RF-1200 HelmetQuite simply the ultimate motorcycle helmet. A brand new model, the RF-1200 is smaller, lighter and more aerodynamic than previous versions — plus it features speaker pocket cutaways for the true video game experience. The RF-1200 also uses Shoei’s exclusive Emergency Quick Release System that allows emergency medical personnel to easily remove the inflatable cheek pads from a rider’s helmet so as to not disturb the neck. No one wants to go down, but if you do this helmet’s the one you want on your noggin.

Learning to drive on ice isn’t just a skill required by James Bond and Inuit drifters. Nimbly corralling a car around long frozen corners, while tires howl and heart pumps wildly, will help you drive better in every facet of your life. And if you do it in 400-horsepower AMGs well, all the better. The Ice Academy offers the experience of a lifetime: negotiate massive racetracks plowed on a frozen lake high in the Arctic Circle of Sweden, then relax in a posh hotel while enjoying fine scotch in an igloo for dessert. Since it’s Benz, it’s luxurious; since it’s AMG, it’s unforgettable.

Sure, there are other companies taking vintage cars and modernizing them from the ground up (see West Coast Defenders above), but no one’s doing it like Singer. They take a 911 from its halcyon air-cooled era and rebuild every piece with modern technology and luxury amenities. But they then go one step further: for even greater classic aura, Singer packages their Porsche in the shell of a classic 1974 911 — arguably its most beautiful, iconic iteration — totally fashioned in carbon fiber. Truly a masterpiece, with a pricetag to match.

Icon’s A5 is brilliantly engineered, aesthetically gorgeous and one of those rare achievements that reminds you that yes, the future is coming. Maybe we were promised jetpacks, but we’ll take a folding plane instead. The ICON A5 fits under the Light Sport Aircraft category, meaning access to a license is quicker, you just aren’t allowed to go anywhere near an airfield tower. But you can use nontraditional landing strips — like lakes and ponds. The origami-like plane not only fits in a double-side car garage when folded, but you can tow it, unload it on Lake Winnipesaukee and take it out for a spin over the White Mountains in one afternoon.